mangosteen

English

mangosteens

Alternative forms

• mangostan
• mangousteen (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mangosteen (“mangosteen”), from Malay manggustan ~ manggista ~ manggistan fusing manggis hutan “jungle manggis” applied to Garcinia hombroniana or G. malaccensis; manggis is a generic word applied to other related garcinias like above and Garcinia penangiana (manggis burung). Not related to mango, though this may have influenced the spelling and pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋ.ɡoʊ.stin/, (uncommon) /ˈmæŋ.ɡə.stin/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋ.ɡə.stiːn/

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Noun

mangosteen (plural mangosteens)

1. A tropical fruit of the tree genus Garcinia.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 116:

     The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.

   1. (more specifically) A tropical fruit of the tree Garcinia mangostana.
2. The tree on which the fruit grows.

Derived terms

• guavasteen
• wild mangosteen

Descendants

• → Japanese: マンゴスチン (mangosuchin)

Translations

fruit

• Arabic: مَانْغُوسْتِين m (manḡustīn), مَانْجُوسْتِين m (mangustīn), جَوْز جَنْدَم m (jawz jandam)
• Bengali: ম্যাঙ্গোস্টিন (mêṅgōsṭin)
• Bouyei: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: မင်းကွတ် (my) (mang:kwat)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 山竹 (yue) (saan¹ zuk¹), 山竹果 (saan¹ zuk¹ gwo²)

  Hokkien: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 山竹 (zh) (shānzhú), 山竹果 (zh) (shānzhúguǒ), 莽吉柿 (zh) (mǎngjíshì)

• Czech: mangostana lahodná f, mangostan m
• Danish: mangostan c
• Dhivehi: މަބުސްތާން (mabustān̊)
• Dutch: mangistan (nl) m
• Esperanto: mangostano
• Finnish: mangostani (fi)
• French: mangoustan (fr), mangouste (fr), brindone (fr) m
• German: Mangostane (de) f
• Hindi: मेन्गोस्टीन (mengosṭīn)
• Hmong:

  White Hmong: txiv nplai qij

• Hungarian: mangosztán (hu)
• Indonesian: manggis (id)
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: mangostano (it) m
• Japanese: マンゴスチン (ja) (mangosuchin)
• Javanese: manngis, manggis (jv)
• Kannada: ಮುರುಗಲ ಹಣ್ಣು (murugala haṇṇu), ಕೋಕಂ (kōkaṃ), ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ (punarpuḷi) (Havyaka Kannada)
• Khmer: មង្ឃុត (km) (mŭəngkhut)
• Khmu: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 망고스틴 (manggoseutin)
• Lao: ມັງຄຸດ (mang khut), ໝາກມັງຄຸດ (māk mang khut)
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: manggis (ms), manggista, manggistan, manggustan
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: хадны дорго (xadny dorgo)
• Occitan: mangosta (oc) f, mangostan m
• Persian: گوز گندم (gowz-e gandom) (archaic)
• Polish: mangostan (pl) m
• Portuguese: mangostão m, mangostim m
• Romanian: mangustan m
• Russian: мангоста́н (ru) m (mangostán), мангуста́н (ru) m (mangustán), мангустин m (mangustin)
• Sinhalese: මැංගුස් (si) (mæṁgus), මැන්ගුස් (mængus), පළතුර (si) (paḷatura)
• Spanish: mangostán (es) m, mangostino (es) m
• Sundanese: manggu (su)
• Swedish: mangostan (sv)
• Tagalog: manggustan
• Tamil: மாங்கிஸ் (māṅkis), மங்குசுத்தான் (maṅkucuttāṉ)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: มังคุด (th) (mang-kút)
• Tulu: ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ (punarpuḷi)
• Ukrainian: мангоста́н m (manhostán), мангоста́на f (manhostána), мангуста́н m (manhustán)
• Vietnamese: măng cụt (vi)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• mangosteen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• megatonnes, nematogens